Sunday, October 27, 2013

I started a new Savage Worlds
campaign… sort of… I’m running the Savage Worlds Tour of Darkness campaign, and
we made a couple of Savage Worlds characters, but I’m going to be using Force on Force/Ambush Valley for playing out the skirmish battles that arise.
Characters will use the appropriate dice for their characters traits when
making tests and checks, where as their squadmates will just check against
their Troop Quality or Morale die.

This evening we made characters
and I introduced the setting and set up a quick little skirmish to try it out. Dave and Patrick showed up and
both made Fireteam leaders.

SITUATION

America’s increasing it’s
involvement in the escalating conflict in the Republic of Vietnam. General
Westmorland has been calling for more ground troops and the first of the Army’s
troops have arrived in the form of the 173rd Airborne Brigade from
Okinawa. One battalion had been tasked to defend Bien Hoa airbase. After a few
days of building barracks and bunkers the troops are taking patrols out into
the area around the base.

SCENARIO

On a Patrol the Players squad is
asked to search a couple of buildings that look abandoned on the edge of a rice
paddy field.

If contact is made additional squads
from the platoon are available as reinforcements – at the beginning of each
turn the players roll a TQ die (d8) and a success means that another fire team
from the platoon will arrive from the north edge of the table.